BACKFIRE

CLOSE TO A GHOST

I read your “Ghost Muscle” article in HMM #191 about a ’70 Road Runner convertible. You were correct in saying they aren’t all gone. I have a ’70 Road Runner convertible in Jamaican Blue. I have owned it since 1981, and it’s never been out of Minnesota during that time. Thought I would share a few pictures with you. Keep the good articles coming.

A true believer in Ghosts!

Lonnie Waldvogel Somewhere in Minnesota

Wow, Lonnie, your car looks just like the one I caught a glimpse of, circa 1999, at a car show in New York. That was the car I wrote about that I thought could be the one I used to see years prior, when I was a kid in the early ’80s. While the one I saw as a teen had wheel covers and faded paint, the one from 1999 was restored, with Cragars and white-letter radials just